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  • In Iran, the death sentences on ten Ahwazi Arabs, accused of bomb attacks in Ahwaz, have been confirmed after what can be described as perfunctory trials.

    Justice is as justice does Helen 2006

  • The Ahwaz is a state and we refuse the word "region".

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

  • A quick Google search provided over a dozen domestic websites scattered across Iran from Rasht, a coastal city in the north, to the southern city of Ahwaz.

    A Craze for Pooches in Iran Dogs the Morality Police Farnaz Fassihi 2011

  • Whether true or not, hearing stories of families in south Lebanon receiving $700 a month in aide because of damages incurred during the country's 33-days war with Israel, when so many areas in the southern Iranian cities of Ahwaz, Khorramshahr and Abadan are still destroyed from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, confuses and angers many Iranians.

    Camelia Entekhabi-Fard: Relations Between Iran and Lebanon according to Nasrullah! Camelia Entekhabi-Fard 2010

  • The Kurds to the west were crushed; the Azeris to the northwest saw their cultural rights shrinking; the Balush in the east were marginalized; and last but not least the Arabic-speaking minority in Ahwaz on the Persian Gulf was harshly oppressed.

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

  • Whether true or not, hearing stories of families in south Lebanon receiving $700 a month in aide because of damages incurred during the country's 33-days war with Israel, when so many areas in the southern Iranian cities of Ahwaz, Khorramshahr and Abadan are still destroyed from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, confuses and angers many Iranians.

    Camelia Entekhabi-Fard: Relations Between Iran and Lebanon according to Nasrullah! Camelia Entekhabi-Fard 2010

  • Whether true or not, hearing stories of families in south Lebanon receiving $700 a month in aide because of damages incurred during the country's 33-days war with Israel, when so many areas in the southern Iranian cities of Ahwaz, Khorramshahr and Abadan are still destroyed from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, confuses and angers many Iranians.

    Camelia Entekhabi-Fard: Relations Between Iran and Lebanon according to Nasrullah! Camelia Entekhabi-Fard 2010

  • Bahman, an Iranian from Ahwaz on the southern front, was injured in a gas attack and still suffers the effects, as do thousands of other Iranians.

    Iran and Iraq remember war that cost more than a million lives 2010

  • The Ahwaz Arab minority accused Tehran of attempting to remove them from their ancestral lands to ensure full control of the oil fields.

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

  • From Beirut to Darfur, from the Berber mountains of North Africa to the marshes of Ahwaz on the Persian Gulf, revolutions are brewing.

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

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